I thought about that and I like the idea. I am however not going to allow people to upload binary to the server (bad memories...). I'm probably going to upload a bunch of medals and you get to select which one you wish to use. I can probably take suggestions for new medals, for everybody(?) to pick. But first we're going to see how it goes.

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Have set myself a personal target to get 10 of these by the year 2020.The order the medals were awarded doesn't seem correct but am sure we will forgive you on this insignificant point. Good work again as ever Riven..

edit : I'm just writing this quite obvious response because it took me a few days to localize the Appreciation button after it changed from the left side of the post (when the link was "Aprecciation++) to the top-right side .

edit : I'm just writing this quite obvious response because it took me a few days to localize the Appreciation button after it changed from the left side of the post (when the link was "Aprecciation++) to the top-right side .

You kept giving medals to it, day after day. What was your point? You obviously didn't agree with the contents of the post, so why this passive aggressive behavior?

Why would you need a warning, if you know you're being a nuisance. This isn't elementary school where you get the proverbial slap on the wrist when being naughty. You are supposed to think for yourself and consider the consequences of your behavior. If you decide to waste my time by having to 'mod' your actions of undermining the credibility of the medal/appreciation system, I won't give you a warning, I will just take away your means to abuse the system.

Meanwhile I enjoy the fact that everybody else uses the appreciation feature the way it was intended.

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"Intended" being an unwritten rule with a precedent that suggests there is no rule in effect? I see plenty of people award frivolous medals, you said the thread (and thus medals) would disappear, and you waited until three weeks after the fact.

Is that the reason, or did something come up later that made you act on that, or was I guilty of something before that time that you still are not happy about that warrants belittling responses if you are courteous enough to respond to me?

There were no reasons other than the medal spamming. You seem to know what you're talking about most of the time, which is why it surprised me you resorted to that, yet I decided not to make a fuss about it. It's kind of the opposite of what you insinuate in your last paragraph.

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He removed those medals a few days after the fact; and, that was that. I made my point with awarding Riven's post medals. I don't plan to award spam medals and still think that less is more with respect to recognition.

He removed my own medals and ability to award them very recently. Given what Riven has said about coding new website features and his hesitation to use heavy handed moderation and the fact that me awarding Riven too many medals is in the past, it seems like I was targeted. My last awarded meda (I think. I only vaguely remember.) was to another member's joke. Maybe it was something that could have been misconstrued as an insult to Riven. Or admin or anyone in power.

This decision seems unreasonable and unprecedented. I got the the message earlier when all my medals in that topic were removed (even to members that deserved medals.) I suspect there is a different subtext now with a message directed towards me. I want to know what it is or what happened if it was a misunderstanding.

Hmmm... I really don't understand this too much at all. (It is reminding me of the Shameful Chit-chat incident...)

It doesn't even make sense that 1 user should be able to award 1 post multiple awards. I assumed that feature didn't exist, but what is preventing that feature from not being abused in the future. It seems to me that things like this can be prevented. Why wait for someone to take these guidelines to the extreme limits before action is taken?

There is an lot that can be improved. Why would I spend months to patch it all, if I can just as well trust the community not to abuse features? Moderation of bad behavior is a few orders of magnitude less work than preventing every possible attempt at it.

FYI: the Appreciation feature piggybacks on SMF's karma feature, which allows awarding a karma point every hour.

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I wonder if you're confused about the time or number of posts I made. I habitually check the tooltips for my own awarded medals and other people's just to see who's given them so far, so I am pretty sure it worked last week. Six sounds high. I think I made 4 awards plus 1 more in another post. Did you delete my first five and mistake another person for me after that? I definitely noticed the changes at different times. I assumed you were making website feature changes when the link disappeared and was too intimidated to point such things out anymore.

How long did coding for the exception take versus coding for prevention of multiple medals? Isn't there a insert unique command in SQL?

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